It was great having the whole crew back together again for our final episode.

This isn't *really* a final episode, just the last one with video. We'll still be doing it, just in a more convenient format. But still, it feels like the end of an era. Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes.

Yeah to expand on what Jon said, you don't need Apple products. Android or whatever will work. It'll be a downloadable MP3 if you don't want to subscribe to it but you have an Android right? Google Play has the same kind of podcast subscription thingie. Or you can use a wide variety of phone/tablet apps or Windows software to subscribe.

Ah, this sentence made it sound like you were equating podcasts with Apple

> I don't own any Apple products, so I've never even thought about podcasts.

But yeah, it'll be available in way more places now.

It's even worse if you've seen the Clone Wars. He's redeemed significantly in those. He's not in a ton of episodes but when he is they actually get the comedy right... most of the time.

It's good that you are starting with Borderlands because firstly, it's great and secondly Borderlands 2 adds some mechanics that make it a bit harder to come back and enjoy the first game. Nothing major, but nice quality of life improvements that make Borderlands 2 that much better for it. Personally I enjoy the gameplay focus on the first game over the story and dialog focus on the second. The story is pretty engaging and funny the first time but becomes less so the more times you go through the game. I really hope Borderlands 3 does something that allows you to play the game without dialog or something.

That said, the original Borderlands is a really contained game that provides a nice length campaign that, to me, never felt overlong. I play it mostly on the PS3 and the game shined on that system but still holds up very well on PC. I've always dreamed they'd bring the Mac port to Steam and also port it to Linux but that doesn't seem to likely at this point.

Anyways, glad you are enjoying the game and I look forward to more of your thoughts on it.

Yeah what Jon says is absolutely true. Overall, I remember the first game more fondly. It had more charm somehow. It was rough around the edges but I liked that. The setting, overall, is more appealing.

But Borderlands 2 ramps up the polish, a better written story, more humor (perhaps too much at times), an incredibly charismatic villain, and most importantly tons of balance and mechanics changes that really make it better. Weapon skill leveling is gone, perks are in. Gunplay feels more impactful.

Borderlands 2 is the better game, definitely, but it misses some piece of magic from the first game that I can't quite quantify.

By "those areas" I assume you're talking about DLC missions? Each mission should tell you what level it's geared toward, and the DLC ones will reset every few levels if you ignore them. So, there's really no wrong time once you reach the first threshold for them. Each one has a different initial level target I think. It's been a while so I can't remember.

I'd play the DLC after you are done with the main game campaign. You can do it whenever, but I believe the DLC story wise happens after the main storyline.

That's a good point. For the most part it doesn't matter but there's one key part of one DLC that wouldn't make a lot of sense if you haven't gotten to a certain point in the main game.

That's vague as hell, but I don't want to spoil things.

That's like saying you should watch the Star Wars prequels before the original trilogy!

Definitely go in release order. The Pre-Sequel kinda assumes you know things that happened in BL2 in a sense. It actually takes place *after* BL2 in a sense, since there are characters from BL2 telling the story. You'll spoil plot points in BL2 by playing The Pre-Sequel first.

Borderlands => Borderlands DLC => Borderlands 2 => Borderlands The Pre-Sequel.

That said, I still have yet to play the Borderlands DLC, finish up Borderlands 2(I am very close) and then the Pre-Sequel. I have games for ages.

Cool! What did you think of completing the base game? What did you think of the ending?

Ah, I forgot about finding claptraps to get backpack upgrades. I kinda like that more than spending that secondary currency on them in BL2.

Not all the way through, no. But I tried all of them for a few hours but Lilith was my jam.

I beat the game with Lilith too. Roland was also pretty fun.

Moxxi's DLC is a very different kind of expansion since it's just an arena. It's fun but not like the others.

I guess by Crawmerax you mean the General Knoxx DLC? If so, yeah you got the best ones done. Although I was getting quite annoyed with Claptrap by the end of the Robot Revolution DLC, I still enjoyed it. Zombie Island is the best I think.

I think I ended up kinda cheesing Crawmerax. It doesn't give you good enough loot to punish yourself with it unless you're on your second (or higher) playthrough.

Gaige's skill tree is tons of fun to experiment with. It looks like you put way more thought into it than I do! :)

Also Greg, your header image broke!

Weird. I wonder what's breaking it on my end!

Occasionally the avatar images break for some reason(not sure why though). All of them are simple links back to whatever service the person selected.

I meant the post's embed image. It was gone for me for an hour or so but then it was fine.

I've never been one for grid based strategy games but I'll still be trying this just because it's the same folks behind FTL. That game was fantastic.

How will this affect things for you? http://www.polygon.com/2017/2/10/14571438/steam-direct-greenlight-dumped

I voted.

That Power Rangers short was amazing and I never touched the show as a kid. I started reading this with skepticism but knowing Shankar is behind it makes me more interested.

I haven't played Twilight Princess but other than that our list of Zeldas played is identical, and my list is 100% identical if you take out TP.

I have all but two of these games, and they're in the expensive tier so this one is going to be a pass for me but BY GRABTHAR'S HAMMER! WHAT A SAVINGS!

Haha, thanks. I love that movie.

I should note, I haven't played them all, I got them on a bundle in a Steam sale ages ago.
Secondly, it's good to keep in mind that unless these games are repeating canon material, they're all out of canon now.

KotOR is legendary, but honestly it doesn't hold up well. I had the disadvantage of never playing it until somewhat recently so I missed out on it in its prime, and the controls are just very messy. But even with that, the few hours I've put into it are great.

The Battlefront games are tons of fun but geared toward multiplayer. You can play single player though. The controls are still tight, but the graphics have aged.

Jedi Outcast is one of those games that I've played to death over the years. I got it shortly after it released and I've popped back in every now and then since then. It's stellar. It's the best thing to come out of the Quake 3 engine other than Quake 3. It stars Kyle Katarn, the guy who stole the death star plans before it was cool. I was hoping he'd be in Rogue One to make him official canon again.

I played the X-Wing games back in the day but I honestly don't remember them well. I had fun with them, but that's about all I remember.

The Force Unleashed games are just awesome. The second one is short, like 4 hours tops, and I would have been really upset if I had paid full price for it. It was basically an expansion pack for the first one and if you treat it as such, it's fun. Both are great fun though. Some interesting story that I kinda wish was still canon and kinda don't.

> "It seems Battlefront is popular right now."

Here's where it gets confusing. They had Battlefront and Battlefront 2, then years and years passed, and now there's another game called... Battlefront. The new one isn't in this bundle.

Yeah if you don't have a steam controller, a recent patch adds support for others, with the same community config support and everything. So you should be able to get one that works, not sure if it'll be as good as those original Xbox controls (never tried them). Oblivion still doesn't have a controller scheme for PC that fully matches the console experience.

I echo Scrypt's sentiments here for the most part. He's obviously dedicated his life to being a ninja and sees Bats as a natural extension of that. At that point it's odd but not harmful. But if he's going out and beating people for stealing purses then it does become a problem.

The question of whether this is getting to the point of a problem for him is whether it's making it hard or impossible to lead a life, maintain relationships, and so on. It could be massive dedication to a cause, or it could be near-insanity.

I just felt bad for this guy. He seems to have some deep-seated pain, that he is using Batman to escape from. I guess in that sense, he is like Batman. His actions and house (at least the way shot) tells me that he is lost in his own world. It almost looks like a hoarders house IMHO (there is stuff everywhere).

In the end I felt less like I am watching a savior but rather someone that needs to be saved.

>"Heh, funny. Yeah well i'd be surprised if this guy actually hits anyone because if he did he'd eventually go to prison even if he's saving the day. At least if it were a regular occurrence. I could be wrong though."

He seems to really want anonymity. It's possible that he beats them senseless but gets out before the cops get there. We don't really learn that from the video. BUT I imagine it's way less of a beating than the real Batman ("real" is an odd word here) would give criminals.

I was also team Cap because if you're a governmental group of superheroes, you become an arm of the military basically. You get sent out on what your government thinks is right.

>"this guy 100% believes he is Batman."
I don't think he does. He seems totally aware that it's a conscious choice to become him based on similar conditions. We may be saying the same thing with different words though.

> "Yep. Which is why they should be with Ironman."

So you think they should be an arm of the military? They'd be like the Comedian and Doctor Manhattan, becoming pawns of the government and acting in the "national interest" whatever that means to whomever is in charge. It could be freeing people from terrorism, it could be terrorism. Under Obama it would have been mostly fine, but could you imagine Trump with control of the Avengers? No government is good enough to trust with that sort of thing, not even Sweden.

That's why I like S.H.I.E.L.D. in the Marvel universe. They know who all the players are, and they bring them in when they need help with something, but they don't share with the rest of the government and they don't own the superheroes or exert control over them. If they go rogue and start terrorizing citizens, they're dealt with.

It's not perfect. In the movies S.H.I.E.L.D. was infiltrated by Hydra agents, for instance, but they're building back up.

I don't see that as the same thing. Soldiers choose to go. Tony wanted to force everyone with certain genetics or circumstances to register with the government and ultimately become pawns of the government. It's forcing that choice on them and making them targets. It takes away their privacy entirely.

But really it's all theoretical because if someone had these powers in real life they'd probably be dead or in permanent captivity for experimentation anyway.

I totally agree with that except for "If be with Ironman." The part you quoted from my message is literally what the Sokovia accords are all about.

It also occurs to me that we may be talking about different aspects of it. Tony says things like "We need to be put in check," and things that are sensible but the actual legislation is basically the Muslim registry for people with powers. I agree with what Tony said, but not the Sokovia accords themselves.

Like literally anyone who has any powers has to be tracked at all times, whether they're peaceful as a monk or an Avenger or a villain. And anyone with enhanced powers who breaks the law can be detained indefinitely without a warrant.

The whole thing is intended as an analogy to racism, just like the mutants in X-Men.

I should also add that I'm incapable of only thinking about it in terms of the movie itself. It's expanded upon significantly in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and that's definitely going to play into my thinking. The movie may not have covered how shitty it is as well, I don't remember.

How did DC change to Marvel? Different Universes!